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I MET FOUR CHIELS . I MET four chiels the ither night , I trow they were a daiz'd like sight , The Deil himsel had gotten a fright , Had he but been wi ' me , O.

I speer'd at them where they had been , Or what misconduct they had deen , Gif aught unyirthly they had seen , I bade them tell me free , O.

Ane o ' them was a souter gude , As e'er put rozet on a thread , I trow he was a jovial blade , But sair forefought was he , 0

Quo ' he , mysel ' and cronies three , Hae been this fortnight on the spree , An ' fint a plack now left hae we , And sair's our drouth to dree , O.

We ca'd at yonder cot down by , ' Tis said they keep it on the sly , But though our tongues were tinder dry , The deil a drap they'd gie , 0

O’d , when I heard their waefu ' tale , I drew frae out my black coat tail A flagon I had for mysel ' , O'Hieland usquebaugh , O.

We set us down upon the bank , Syne drew the cork , and blithely drank , Till down before ' s the souter sank , To try't upon his knee , O.

Faith , when I saw ' im before us lie , I thought we'd better hameward try , For fear some body might come bye We wouldna ' wish to see , O.

We raised him noo upon his pins , And pat a prop before his shins , Syne bade him t ' repent his sins , That pardoned he might be , 0 .

Hoo they gat hame I canna tell . I scarce ken hoo I wan mysel ' ; But noo I'm here an ' soun ' an ' hale , An ' fairly coured the spree , 0 .

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from Poems & Lyrics (in the Scotch dialect) (1856), releases June 6, 2024
John Collie (1834-1893) - lyrics
Dave Edwards - banjo, bass, vocal

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Outsider music from Aotearoa NZ and beyond, by Dave Edwards and collaborators (from 1856 to 2024).

Spans acoustic & electric noise, rock, folk, spoken word, postpunk, free jazz, gamelan, lo fi, electronica, & ethnomusicology.

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